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MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas - Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling on Tuesday to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis as the scale of the catastrophe begins to emerge.
“The Mud, as we know, has been completely destroyed or decimated,” he said in reference to a shantytown known as the Mud and the Peas.Sisyphus on the beach: Dorian underlines coastal cities' endless rebuilding tasksaid one Twitter poster with the handle @mvp242, describing a rain-blurred photograph of limp bodies strewn across a truck bed. Other Twitter messages said whole communities were swept away.
In another, a woman repeatedly says, “Please pray for us,” after the storm ripped the roof off her apartment building, exposing her, and other residents, to the elements as she struggled to shelter her 4-month-old baby.Reports from Grand Bahama island, and its main town of Freeport, have been more sketchy. The weather has made it impossible for relief agencies to get through, Minnis said.
Dorian packed sustained winds of 110 miles per hour and was moving northwest at 6 mph , as it churned about 95 miles east of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the NHC said in an 11 p.m. EDT advisory.
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